Friday, June 9, 2023

Thomas Stilwell (1942-2023) Warren High School class of 1960

 
1960 Dragon yearbook

Source:  Donald Lewis Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

1983 Warren City Directory
  • Stilwell Maurice J & Clara R retired r629 Beech Street
  • Stilwell Thomas A & Carol L; programmer New Process h115 Main Avenue


The popularity of Thomas as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at great-granddaughter Whitney. 

Source:  Social Security  Administration

Whitney debuted in 1962, and after a decade of hesitation, scurried up the chart into the top 100, where it turned out to be a 'hello I must be going' experience.  She took up residence there for just 10 years, peaking at #32 in 1986 and 1987.  She dropped off the chart in 2021. 

Other class of 1960 obituaries (50): 
2023

2022

2021
Roberta Sampson.  (11/14)

2020
Joyce Hawley Brown.  (12/30)
Terrence Henry.  (12/7)

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GET ME REWRITE: Spotlight remains on Janel Brandtjen, egregious former chair of Wisconsin Assembly elections committee

 
Headline:  WUWM, 6/8/2023
Brandtjen has been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. She used her position on the committee to further those claims. 
For instance, Brandtjen invited testimony from right-wing activists about fraud claims that were refuted by election officials. She staunchly supported former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gabelman’s probe of the 2020 election, which produced no evidence of fraud and cost upwards of $2 million dollars. Brandtjen was removed from the post by GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in December. He said she’s unqualified to have the job.
So why did you appoint her to the position in the first place, Robin?


Janel's trail of election denier Looney Tunes
June 2023

February 2023
Trump rewards slobbering sycophant and fanatical election denier with endorsement in today's 8th Senate District primary.  (2/20/2023)
Democrats educate voters about off-the-charts whackjob Janel Brandtjen. (2/16/2023)

January 2023
Anti-Trump group campaigns against "inept, unqualified, ineffective" election denier Janel Brandtjen.  (2/13/2023)

December 2022
Spoiler alert:  GOP Dan Feyen drops out of Wisconsin 8th Senate District primary, hoping to keep 'divisive fringe candidate' Janel Brandtjen from winning.  (12/30)War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues (chapter two).  (12/28)
War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues.  (12/23/2022)
2020 election denier queen Janel Brandtjen sez she won't shut up or stop drinking the Trump Kool-Aid.  (12/20)
GOP caucus outcast and election denier Janel Brandtjen running for open State Senate seat.  (12/6)
One-woman election denier Looney Tunes festival doesn't realize she's about to get cancelled.  (12/5)

November 2022
As John Torinus describes it, Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen went ballistic over three grains of sand in the desert.  (11/23)
Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen is even too toxic for her own party's caucus.  (11/16)
GOP judge quickly slaps down Wisconsin election denier queen's lawsuit to block military votes.  (11/8)

October 2022

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Covid Chronicles. Chapter 52: A Small Reunion


Read chapter 51 here
Photo by Retiring Guy

June 9, 2020 


During the past decade or so, JoAnna has scheduled weekend mini-reunions with her two best friends from high school, Kathy and Jill. Last year the three of them met in Chicago to see a Randy Rainbow concert. Actually, I dropped off JoAnna at the park-and-ride near the Interstate and Kathy drive down from Neenah to pick her up there. Jill drove up from Lexington, Kentucky. Jill hosted the gathering in 2015, and, for a change of pace, the husbands were invited to participate. 

This year’s reunion was planned well in advance, I.e., pre-Covid, as a reprise of 2015 Lexington weekend. Home to the University of Kentucky, the city is one of two islands of blue, the other being Louisville, in a deep red state. It definitely has a Madison vibe. As with all of our other travel plans from mid-March to the present, our Lexington road trip was cancelled. Early in the year, JoAnna and I talked about a two-week ramble that would take us from Middleton to Warren, followed by a ‘blue highways’ meander to Kentucky via Pittsburgh and southeastern Ohio, possibly stopping in the Columbus area to visit friends. Not to be. 

We salvaged a day of togetherness after Lee and Jill decided to get away from home for a week, visiting her mom in Two Rivers and Lee’s sister and her husband in Middleton. As a result, JoAnna and I served as hosts last Saturday, Kathy and Dave driving down from Neenah to join us. It was a lowkey but very enjoyable day, if only for the pleasure of interacting face-to-face with friends. 

Our guests arrived at 11:30. We sat on the patio and talked over a light lunch, then took a midafternoon walk along the Pheasant Branch Creek Corridor on a made-to-order summer day — sunny, mild, low humidity, which also allowed to remain comfortably outdoors all day. Returning to our back yard, we sat in a circle in the shade provided by the evergreens, beverages in hand, and enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation, keeping to positive topics, i.e., leaving Trump on the sidelines, for the most part. With four high school classmates being together – Lee is also a class of ‘81 Two Rivers High School grad -- a lot of reminiscing took place. JoAnna even brought out her high school yearbooks.

Read chapter 53 here
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